Cloning Problems

Having some trouble cloning a database. The database was shutdown with the
immediate option and all file where copied to new location. I usually
shutdown immediate, open then shutdown normal myself but this was outside my
control. I did the standard stuff with the trace file, reset logs
etc...done this many times before. When I tried to open the database with
the resetlogs option it told me I needed to do recovery. I have been doing
this a lot lately with hot files so recovery is usually required but it has
been a while since I have used cold files. Any ideas what I have done wrong
here? Was it the shutdown immediate? My bet is if I had switched through
the redo logs before the shutdown I probably wouldn't have this problem but
I also thought that the shutdown immediate would have issued a checkpoint
and all the changes in the redo would have been made to the datafiles.
Thanks!

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